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CGD NOTE

Mismeasuring ODA—How Risky Actually Are Aid Loans?

Euan Ritchie
November 05, 2020
This note explores what happens to the value of ODA loans if more realistic discount rates are chosen. In short, the value of ODA loans falls by over a half.
WORKING PAPER

New DAC Rules on Debt Relief – A Poor Measure of Donor Effort
Euan Ritchie
October 07, 2020
The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) recently produced a long-awaited set of rules for how debt relief on loans should be scored as Official Development Assistance (ODA). Unfortunately, the rules suffer from a number of statistical problems and the DAC needs to take these rules back to th...
Blog Post

Measuring ODA: Four Strange Features of the New DAC Debt Relief Rules
Euan Ritchie
September 09, 2020
This blog briefly describes the OECD DAC's new rules for debt relief, and four features that may not satisfy critics of the new system.
Blog Post

Why is the World So Stingy?
Charles Kenny
July 20, 2020
Over the last sixty years, we have seen many changes in what constitutes a "rich" country, but little difference in what counts as a poor country requiring significant development assistance. While donor status appears more closely tied to relative income, significant recipient status appears to hav...